What can a child do in 7-9 months?

Your child becomes more active. He is already much stronger physically and much more mobile. There are new skills. He already turns over from the back to his stomach. In the position on his back, he raises his legs and explores them with interest. He sits well, and his body is straightened. He is actively creeping. And he can crawl both forward and backward. Some children can already stand on all fours, however, few more can move in this position.

The child begins to shift objects from one hand to another. He can already more purposefully shake the rattle and beat it on the objects surrounding him. During feeding, he tightly covers the bottle, and you can even release it, only holding it in the right position so that the child does not swallow air. Take care that the bottle is not hot. Grabbing one thing, a child can reach for another. If you feed the child at the table from a spoon, then you can give a spoon to him in the quality of a game or training of motor skills. He will most likely knock on the table, on his head and, of course, try to climb it into the plate, copying your actions. You can help him: take his pen and spoon in his hand and, scooping up some food, bring it to the child's mouth.

By seven or eight months the child, lying on the back, can already raise his head - so strengthened his neck muscles. He can already sit longer than before, periodically leaning forward and leaning on his hands, and then straightens again. Standing on all fours, swaying back and forth. So he trains to start moving on all fours. Despite the fact that the child already knows how to sit, he does not know how to sit alone. That is, if he crawled or stood on all fours, or stood, but then tired - he can sit down. But sit down from the prone position, he can not immediately. To do this, he lacks the strength of the abdominal muscles. Therefore, to sit down, he must roll over on his stomach, bending his legs and leaning on his hands, move to the knee-elbow position and only then sit down.

Taking objects in the handle, the child starts to use for a more complete coverage of the thumb. When playing with objects, for example with a rattle, he no longer just shakes it, but pursues a certain goal - wants it to make sounds. At the same time, sometimes he takes one rattle and does not touch the other - apparently, he likes the sound first. Improves the coordination of movements - when you move the object from hand to hand, the baby does not cling to one another.

At eight months old, the baby is already crawling well on the floor or on all fours. But do not get scared and do not get upset if he does not know how to do it. Not all children go through the stage of crawling in this position. Some "hurry" to get up and immediately start with walking. Sometimes parents try to teach the child to crawl "in the right way," trying not to notice that their child can stand in bed for a long time, holding on to the bars, or trying to be led around the room for both hands. Some children learn the technique so much that they do not even crawl, but "run" on all fours, and then, having already learned to walk more or less steadily, when they need to quickly get into the kitchen or into another room, they fall into their hands and quickly crawl there , where they need it.

The movements of the small muscles of the fingers, which until now were awkward, reach such a level that the baby can already grab a string or a string on which a toy is hanging out with fingers. And their strength is enough to not just crumple the paper, but also to tear it.

If the child took both hands on the subject, then when the third appears, he will think long enough, examine the objects in his handles, and only after throwing one of them, he will take the third.

With a certain training, he can already clap his hands. However, he falls palm into the palm of his hand is not always. If you clap your hands with him, and even repeat some poems-jokes, or do it to music, he will like it very much - after all this is another game!

By the ninth month the child is already pretty well worth it, holding on to the cot cribs or the leg of the chair. He has already learned to crawl so fast that you need to hurry to catch up with him. Holding on to the railing, the child can walk on the bed or along the sofa, holding on to him, if standing on the floor. But while he moves sideways and learns to carry the weight of the body from one foot to the other. You can accelerate this process if you offer the child some interesting subject. He will reach for him and will have to take a step. The child is already so active in moving around the room, and his pens have already reached such perfection that the "shod" he could have done before, left alone in the room, nothing compared to what he can do now! Therefore, leaving the child alone, put him in the arena. This is an indispensable thing! Its area is somewhat larger than the crib. If necessary, it develops, turning into a flat circle, which can be easily hidden behind a cabinet or somewhere else. Manege is safe enough - if a child falls, he does not hit his head as he would hit a wooden bed, because the riding arena is limited by the net from the sides. On the other hand, the arena will restrain the development of crawling skills. Therefore, if you want to relax or do something around the house, then for some time, leave the child in the arena. And when you are done, "release" the child to the floor - let him crawl.

The small muscles of the fingers have already reached such perfection that the child can use them separately. For example, he uses the index and thumbs, taking a small toy, like a pair of tweezers. He can already point at the items with his index finger. If the size of the objects permit, he can add three more objects to the two objects held in the handles. He already understands that one item can be placed in another, putting cubes or other small toys into a cup.